Re: modified-bsd license?

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 04:34:49PM +0000, John Klos wrote:
> I'm now thoroughly confused. Now it is MANDATORY for people to have
> ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES+=modified-bsd in /etc/mk.conf in order to use pkgsrc?
>
> ERROR: This package has set PKG_FAIL_REASON:
> ERROR: pkg_install-20090528 has an unacceptable license: modified-bsd.
> ERROR: To view the license, enter "/usr/bin/make show-license".
> ERROR: To indicate acceptance, add this line to /etc/mk.conf:
> ERROR: ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES+=modified-bsd
>
> What the hell? Who thought it was a good idea to do this?
My guess is that you set ACCEPTABLE_LICENSES in /etc/mk.conf with "="
instead of "+=".
modified-bsd of course is included in the default-accept licenses, see
pkgsrc/mk/licenses.mk.
Thomas